It is...in the interest of business to express itself more vociferously in opposition to the Protection of Information Bill which is being pushed through Parliament...Often it is only an inquiring and free media, along with a vigilant civil society, that stands between the closed society and the right of access to state information that is so properly protected in South Africa’s Bill of Rights...Pick n Pay’s maxim of consumer sovereignty is based on precisely this principle, as we have learnt over many years that the modern citizen demands maximum disclosure about the safety, origin and contents of what we sell...Every businessman knows the truth of this and should therefore be profoundly alive to any threat to the free availability of information held by the state or any of its agencies. [Also refers to Google, Yahoo]